I better get my good self out!

Elizabeth! Thank you for serving our faith! I miss miss miss you. I am going to make it a point to see you this summer…..

This devotion helped me to understand that my faith is an on going journey. God is not through molding me yet. Thank you Debbie for helping our faith community grow and move forward,; even if we just take baby steps at given times.✝️💟

Love this! Love the book! Great reminders.,,

The Five Love Languages is a very usable book that I read years ago. I found this book to be most helpful through the years with family members, my children, and with friends. Thank you Pastor Debbie for reminding me about this awesome read.

Thank you so much for ways to minister love to friends and family experiencing difficult situations.

Self reflection is so important and having the grace to except and love one another in spite of our differences and imperfection's.

Inspired message to help those are in need of something. I love the idea of angels among us; that we as Christians might be entertaining.😇

Wow! Little rain drop, you took me on an incredible, eye-opening experience. How marvelous of you to write to Glen, I feel so fortunate to hear your perspective! I will start looking at rain and tears and glaciers and thinking about the big bang and molecules marrying with a brand new neuronal circuits, awe, wonder, and imagination. Holy stuff, Glen! June

A message from the heart... in it Debbie marks our church-family growth with measues of love. May we all reciprocate with exercises of affirmation toward her, our congregation and the wider community around us!

Great devotion.

Amen PO 🥳👏👍🥰❤

It is true that many of us need help, yet are slow to ask for it. I appreciate your words of encouragement. Thanks Debbie.

Great words of encouragement to be able to accept disagreement in some areas and yet be able to find other areas where we can move on together. That sounds way better than "blowing things up" and just not talking or communicating. Thanks Debbie!

Words of wisdom for those of us who need a hand now and then... which is to say All of us. Thank you, Debbie.

Thank you, Pastor Debbie.

Never underestimate the healing power of kindness.

During the 1950s, racism was defined as excluding blacks from owning homes in the neighborhood where my parents lived. A social real estate effort was made to have a black family live in every block. This was supposed to eliminate racism. During the 1960s Martin Luther King, Jr. expanded the meaning of racism in my life. He claimed racism was one identifiable group of people considering themselves superior to another identifiable group of people. Slaves were a group of people in the United States with black skin. They became free in 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation. However, MLK was leading Americans in 1963 because blacks were struggling to get the right to vote. Society was still treating some children of God as inferior. The government of Christian England treated the people of India as inferior, and Mahatma Gandhi challenged that government. In 1947 India became free. Treating these children of God as inferior was the sin. The Jews were treated as inferior people during the leadership of a political party in Christian Germany. In 1948 the state of Israel was created. When do I consider myself superior to another person? Gandhi and MLK taught to imbed love in the means to the ends of political activity, and this meant no physical violence, so that the community will love each other when the goals are achieved. "Do unto your neighbor as you would have your neighbor do unto you". Eliminating racism should follow this principle.

I hope the Church of Christ, will expand to include (1) all those who follow the Torah and the Prophets of the Old Testament, (2) all those who follow the Gospels and Letters of the New Testament, (3) all those who follow the teaching of the Quran after the Bible was cannonized, but will follow the guidance by the Holy Spirit in their current daily life.

A fitting close... "Think about it friends. Where do you think God may be calling us?"

This devotion on how we might best serve the others outside of the doors of our church was motivating to me. I want to find ways to help those whom are less fortunate than I am.

All so true. I wish attending was more a priority. ☹️

I love what you said. Church is NOT a building.

Oct 15th 2023 Such a beautiful tribute to Tracy’s Legacy! May you find happiness as you adjust to your next chapter in your life. 💟✝️Wendy T

Very thought provoking and instrumental to our growth as a Christian community. I definitely have room for better understanding of racism.

This devotional moment was very inspiring. Grace imprints itself and our Lord invites to rest .Inhale: Jesus says “ Come to Me” Exhale: Let me rest”. Words to live by not only on the sabbath, but everyday we should take the time to slow down and rest.

Thx Glen

Beautiful

Very nice meditation, Glen

Beautiful Glen!

Love this

Thank you! I can embrace your shared concepts especially in moments of conflict and anger and use the practice to learn , contemplate and perhaps address an aggravating situation.

Thanks Lynn !

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I’m so looking forward to our next study starting soon at FUMC.

Very comforting and new understandings of Grace for me and my personal relationship with God. This lesson about Grace was so very helpful to me. Thank you Pastor Debbie!

I'm fully in to Dare to Make a Difference...

Love seeing you Margie. Thanks for the message.

Thanks Debbie

I like where this thought leads... "We can help each other be our best selves." It's nice to be reminded that we can make a difference every day. Over time, micro changes create macro differences. Thanks Debbie!

Thank you Tracy, for tips seed planting.

I haven't been to church in months. I purposely came in late and I sat in the back. I started crying and i did my best to hold it back, but I couldn't. When the time to get up and receive communion came I fled

good day! Wenatcchee~ professional upload! wanna a promotion?~see u around,:))

😊 This message made me feel so good because I do not learn crafts or other new tasks easily. Pastor Debbie is such a motivator for encouraging her flock to step out of their comfort zone. Dec 24, 2023

Beautiful Message- Loved Christmas from a young child’s view.

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Thank you Doug and Linda! Your commitment to First Church, spreading the message and especially the efforts on behalf of children is inspiring and very much appreciated.

Thank you, Debbie 🙏❣️ As always, I appreciate your words of wisdom 👌❣️

Sorry, for the lose :(